Thank you! Very proud of this article. Always great to coauthor on Olympic issues with @julesboykoff.bsky.social

Despite cosmetic Olympic reforms, the #MilanoCortina2026 Winter Olympics show that ingrained problems such as overspending, corruption, intensified policing, & greenwashing largely remain unaddressed. @edgeofsports.bsky.social & I offer the details @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Hello, it's me, your resident buzzkill, bringing you a Winter Olympics syllabus of sorts. If you, like me, struggle to watch sports free from the broader context in which they exist, then this reading list is for you.

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

I personally think this is now all too clear - oligarchs catching and killing the mainstream media infrastructure so their repugnant crimes against humanity and the planet are hidden from public view - but **please** let's all say it louder for the people in the back.

Fucking disgusting. I have no words. Yes I do. There is not a level of hell low enough for Jeff Bezos. The Devil is right now building a basement.

Canceled my Post subscription, not so much in “protest” as just like… it doesn’t make financial sense for me to pay the same subscription price for like 1/3 of what I used to enjoy reading. Like Mr. Bezos I am a businessman

Stop praising the NFL for getting Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl halftime show as if they are "standing up to Trump." 1) The NFL owners *bankroll* Trump. 2) Bad Bunny is 💰. He's beyond famous. RATINGS 🔥 3) The NFL's next new international game is in Madrid where - shocker - they speak Spanish. (1/2)

"Now is the time for LA28 to demonstrate how much they truly value women." Another call for Casey Wasserman to resign from LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath (she is rumored to be running for mayor of LA so it's notable she's saying something before Karen Bass does)

"LA28 cannot claim to represent the values of this city without addressing these concerns head-on. Casey Wasserman must resign." Another call to step down from LA City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Olympic displacement, continued: Two women we interviewed in Tokyo lost their homes to the Olympics *TWICE*—by both the 1964 Tokyo Olympics & then, more than five decades later, by the Tokyo 2020 Games. Written with @edgeofsports.bsky.social for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/arch...

"Classes have been called off in the Columbia Heights school district today due to what officials are calling a bomb threat. The closure comes as 5-year-old preschool student Liam Conejo Ramos & his father from Columbia Heights were released from an ICE detention center in Texas and returned to MN."

Bad Bunny going after ICE at the Grammies is getting its attention. But Coach Muffet McGraw calling Trump a “fascist” who “needs to be removed from office” is a thing. In the part of the country where Coach McGraw is revered, this is a big deal. www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/2...

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

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34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We got the concert we needed at First Ave this afternoon.

The 2028 LA Olympics: brought to you by Jeffrey Epstein

Incredible

🚨"They're stealing the car!" As Tom Homan vows "safer" ICE operations, ICE rammed into a driver's car in Minneapolis—in front of an elementary school—then chased him. After failing to catch him—they stole his car. "Back up before I f*cking spray you!" ICE yelled at observers ⬇️

I keep thinking about Wemby saying that team PR told him to shut up and not decry the ICE murders in Minneapolis. I don’t think he did it consciously, but he was breaking some serious omertà. Jocks have told me for years about political pressure from team PR but they never talk about it publicly.

Shit is worse in Minneapolis post-Bovino. More harassment of observers than before. More following to homes. But the mutual aid/labor resistance hasn’t gone anywhere. We gotta do our part. All of us have to, as Mpls teacher Dan Troccoli said, “Not just appreciate but emulate.”

I got fooled by a fake post that said Patriots owner Bob Kraft was forcing his players to see that Melania movie before the Super Bowl for motivation. Given the millions that Kraft has piled into Trump's coffers and the shady stop antisemitism organization he founded, I was an easy mark. (1/2)

I wrote last week after the fans of the T-Wolves and then Doc Rivers spoke out that hopefully this could be the start of a wave. It's horrific that it took the murder of Alex Pretti to make that wave, but a wave is here. Shout out to Victor Wembanyama for being part of it over the advice of Spurs PR

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

A—friggin-men

I posted Chaplain Moberg’s statement and it got 20,000 thumbs up which to put it mildly was unexpected. This terrific piece shows the person and politics beyond the words.

ICE agents are going to threaten and intimidate American athletes and American press from saying anything negative about Trump. An armed ICE agent showing up in participants dorms will have a chilling affect.

I'm beyond excited to tour with this book. The politics of Howard Zinn matter now more than ever. For those who can, if you preorder it, there is a much greater chance it will get the shine that Zinn and his ideas deserve. Howard Zinn: now more than ever. #ThePeoplesHistorian

Finally. A comprehensive look at the “neo-Nazi .. ethnic cleansing” content coming out of “the offices of the White House .. using official government accounts ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

(Desperately needing distraction) This is tough competition but I think the Timpano (massive Italian pasta pie) in Stanley Tucci’s “Big Night” is the most temptingly delicious food has ever looked on screen. Many silver medalists.

Italy very much not happy about it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

LOL. Vance is traveling to the Olympics with ICE acting as his personal security. What a cos-playing worm.

My latest piece @thenation.com The unfathomable is actually gaining traction: "With Government Killers Marauding US Streets, a Call Is Rising for Nations to Boycott the World Cup" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

No notes.

Coincidence it will be in the Bay Area, a place they have long had on their brutalization list? No. What a shitshow.

“F*ck Ice” apoears to have been the message of choice. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

You don't get a cookie for saying "state murder is bad" but we need to have all hands on deck & it's good to see Tyrese Haliburton, Breanna Stewart, Ryan Clark and others step up. Waiting on players from the Lynx and T-Wolves (who have now had two games cancelled following state murders. A record!)

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

The Barstool pricks absolutely bear responsibility for spreading & monetizing the date-rapey frat-boy shit that helped make Trump palatable to so many dim guys who otherwise might not have even voted. It’s definitely good news that they’re finally finding their line, but fuck these dudes regardless.

The nurses are pissed

This is, quite literally, our collective duty.

As I was saying.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

that crowd doesn’t even include the people actively patrolling, doing mutual aid, and dozens of small protests on corners throughout the city during the march. really cannot adequately convey the size of this thing that is happening